Catch-basin

Catch´-ba`sin


n.1.A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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